Those Warwicks!

Am I the only one who thinks warwicks look funny? I'm not saying that they're ugly. Warwicks sound good. I think it would be cool if they had less of a straight cutaway type thing going on. Everytime I look at a warwick I start chuckling and saying 'heh, those warwicks.' It would be even more classic if they made the straight cutaway longer, so it would end up having this 8 inch cutaway looking thing. It would be radical and unbalanced.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's definitely not an unpleasant thing though. I mean, I really like their looks, but they're definitely a little "out there". Especially the Dolphin, Buzzard, Vampyre, etc.

If you're talking about the ones with the plain wood finish, then I'd agree. They feel great for the most part though. In addition to the odd body shape, it seems to be a very small looking and feeling body too.

Frankly, I love the looks of just about all the Warwick bass, excluding the Buzzard and Vampire line. I have owned a custom shop Thumb 5 BO but sold it only because I couldn't get use to the tight string spaceing. I still have my Thumb 4 NT, and a Streamer Stage II 4. The wood combination on these are wonderful for tone and looks. I also happen to like the smaller body on the Thumb basses.

If you want to cut down the Streamer series because of their body shape, you would also have to cut down the Spector basses (same body style). As far as the pickups being slanted on some of their 5-string basses, I thought that was kind of funky too at first but once you play it a couple of times you won't even know the difference. There is a reason for the slanted pickups, they do that because they feel it is the best position for tone in some of their basses. Keith Roscoe does the same thing on his basses.

Everybody has an idea of what they want in a bass for tone and looks. If you don't like their looks, don't look at them. Personally, I would rather have a nice contoured body instead of a flat body on both sides that looks and feels like a 2X4.